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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION 



OF THE 



FRIENDS OF FREEDOM, 

HELD IN LYCEUM HALL, NEW ORLEANS, 

December 15tla, 1863. 



Pursuant to the following call, the Convention assembled in Lyceum 
Hall, December 15th, 1863, at 6| P. M. 

NOTICE TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM. 

At a session of the Union Free State General Committee of Louisiana, 
November 13th, 1863, the Special Committee appointed to make arrange- 
ments for a Convention of the Friends of Freedom, reported the following 
resolution, inviting delegates from all Union Associations in this State to 
assemble in Convention at Lyceum Hall, on the 15th of December, 1863, at 
6 o'clock P. M., which was unanimously adopted. 

THOMAS J. DURANT, President. 
James Graham, Secretary. 



resolution : 

Resolved, That all organized Union Associations in the different Parishes 
of the State of Louisiana be requested to elect Delegates to meet in Con- 
vention at Lyceum Hall, in the city of New Orleans, on the 15th day of 
December, 1863, at 6 o'clock p. m., to elect Delegates to a General Conven- 
tion of the Friends of Freedom, proposed to be held on the 8th day of 
January, 1864. Each Parish and District shall be entitled to vote in said 
Convention according to the number and proportion of the Free State 
basis of representation in the popular branch of the State Legislature. 

Wm. R. Crane, 
A. P. Dostie, 
Edwin White, 
J. Fisk, 
James Ready, J 



Special Committee. 



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The Convention was called to order by Dr. James Ready, who moved 
that the Hon. Edwin White be elected Chairman pro tern., which was 
unanimously adopted. 

On motion of Dr. A. P. Dostie, Mr. William Baker was appointed Secre- 
tary pro tern. 

On motion of Dr. Ready, a committee of five members on credentials 
was ordered to be appointed. 

The Chair then named Messrs. Hornor, Maudell, Miller, Perry and 
StaufTer. After a short recess, the Committee on Credentials reported the 
names of the following delegates : 



FREE STATE UNION ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS. 



Thomas J. Durant, 
Charles? W. Hornor. 
B. L. Brown, 
J. McNair, 
J. B. Carter, 
J. G. Belden, 
J. White. 



E. Warren, 
V. Meilley. 
E. H. Chadwick, 
J. L. Sterrt, 
Hon. E. Hiestand, 
Z. Getchell, 
T. C. Goldman. 



UNION ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, FIRST DISTRICT. 



J. M. C. Brady, 
D. E. Mandell, 



E. Murphy, 
Robert Armfield, 



J. M. White. 



UNION CLUB FIRST DISTRICT. 



Henry Perry, 
M. J. Grady, 
A. C. Hills, 
W. B. Hall, 
A. P. Dostie, 
Rufds Waples, 
Theodore Meek, 



John F. Collins. 



James Ready, 
James E. Tewell, 
M. Schuppert, 

D. S. Shearer, 

E. Heath, 

J. R. Terry, 
R. W. Miller, 



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WORKING MENS' LEAGUE. 

T. J. Earhart, 
A. Jehlen, 
W. B. Slaughter, 
John Burke, 
D. Christie, 

Dr. W. H. Hire. 



J. GORLINSKI, 

L. P. Nugent, 
A. McKee, 

JOSIAH FlSK, 

Thomas 'Burke, 



FIE ST WARD UNION ASSOCIATION 

James Graham, 
Wm. R. Crane, 



J. A. Noble, 
William Baker. 
F. C. Mahax. 



Samuel Barnes, 
Ansel Edwards, 
j. m. burchakd, 
J. H. Darling, 
Jacob Miller, 



John F. Taylor. 



SECOND WARD CLUB, FIRST DISTRICT 

Henry Barnett, Dr. J. Y. Meighan. 

Dr. E. C. Hyde, F. V. Boker, 

N. F. Hyer. F. T. Royer. 



GERMAN UNION ASSOCIATION, FIRST AND FOURTH DISTRICTS. 

First District. 

J. B. Schroeder, Michael Biegel, 

Geo. Schantz, William Kalberlah, 

Sebastian Seiler. 



Fourth District. 

Henry Brandt, Charles Kehl, 

John Kummig, Charles Schweickert, 

josefh kupferle. 



UNION ASSOCIATION. SECOND DISTRICT. 



Dr. J. Allen, 
Dr. B. Maas, 
M. J. Brauneis, 
J. L. Imlay, 
L. S. Buchanan, 



J. F. Fisher, 
George Dinkel, 
A. Boditz, 
L. Nick, 
Peter Rudolphus. 



UNION REPUBLICAN CLUB, SECOND DISTRICT. 

A. Fernandez, Anthony Condamin, 

Victor Souterre. P. Gingunst, 

E. 0. Bertin. 



UNION CLUB, SECOND DISTRICT. 

Henry Train. Victor Gerodias, 

Hon. Chas. Leaumont, Arnauld Commagere, 

J. M. Crozart. 



UNION ASSOCIATION. THIRD DISTRICT. 

John S. Walton. M. Moulin, 

James Jackson, J. P. Newcomb, 

E. Goldman. J. McWhirter, 

Joseph Doplaine. 



EIGHTH WARD UNION CLUB. THIRD DISTRICT. 

B. F. Flanders, H. Stiles, 

F. A. Wolfley, Edward Hart, 

Dr. Augustus Shelley. 



FOURTH DISTRICT UNION ASSOCIATION. 

D. C. Woodruff, L. B. Martin, 

A. H. Whitney. J. L. Davis, 

A. Keen. 



TENTH WARD CLUB, FOURTH DISTRICT. 

C. W. Stauffer, Hon. Edwin White, 

S. G. Brower, R. W. Stanley, 

George G. Cleal. 



ELEVENTH WARD UNION ASSOCIATION, FOURTH DISTRICT. 

E. Whittemore, W. R. Miller, 

John Wyman, W. W. Lamberton. 

W. R. Fish. 



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CITY OF JEFFERSON ASSOCIATION. 

John Hillkrick, Henry Koons, 

Adam Drott, John Payne, 

Robert Morris. F. W. Fdlmer, 

Nicholas Schneider, Thomas Winn, 

R. L. Lynch, William Piper. 



REGENERATION CLUB OF LAFOURCHE, TERREBONNE AND ASSUMPTION. 

augcst rlbbeck, ferdinand lorenz, 

Justin Sarta, Theophile Boudreaux, 

Alfred Rocgelot. 



UNION CLUB OF BATON ROUGE. 

John O'Connor, A. Blum, 

August Budy. 



WESTERN LOUISIANA UNION CLUB. 
J. E. Wallace. 

The Chairman of the Committee on Credentials stated that the names of 
the delegates from an Association of free colored men had been rejected 
by the majority of the Committee. 

Mr. T. J. Durant moved that the report of the said Committee be re- 
ferred back to them, with instructions to report the names of all delegates 
with credentials. 

The motion being seconded — 

Mr. Hornor explained that the report was a majority report, and sug- 
gested that the report be accepted and the Committee discharged, when 
the question of admitting these delegates to the floor could be taken up by 
the Convention. 

Mr. Miller, as one of the majority, said the Committee had only offered 
the result of their deliberations ; the Convention could do as they pleased 
with the question. 

Mr. Earhart asked the name of the Association and the names of the 
delegates that the Committee had rejected. 



Mr. Hornor said the name of the Association was the Union Radical 
Association, and read the list of names. 

Mr. Fernandez said that many of the delegates whose names had just 
been read were personally known to him ; they were gentlemen — men of 
education. This was a Convention of the Friends of Freedom, and he saw 
no reason for excluding these men. 

Mr. Crane was in favor of referring back the report. 

After some further discussion, Mr. Durant's motion to refer back the 
report was adopted. 

Soon after the Committee reported the following additional names : 

UNION RADICAL ASSOCIATION. 

Joseph Cariel. Eugene Macartt, 

M. Lanna, Chari.es Haubert, 

ftl. Debergue, Isaac Bell, 
Pacl Hecam. 



NATIVE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, LEFT BANK MISSISSIPPI. 

S. W. Rogers, H. Clay, 

W. Forrest, A. Barber, 

L. Bougdille, E. Campanel, 

A. W. Lewis, S. Delille, 

n. Francis, J. B. Noble, 

Charles Winkfield. 

It was then moved and seconded that the report of the Committee be 
received, and that the Committee be discharged, which was adopted. 
Mr. Earhart offered the following resolutions : 

1. Resolved, That the name of this Convention be styled "The Louisiana 
State Convention of the Friends of Freedom." 

2. Resolved, That its permanent organization be a President, a Secre- 
tary, a Doorkeeper, with the necessary Committees ; and said Secretary 
not to be a member of this Convention. 

3. Resolved, That before proceeding to any further business, the Rev. 
Stephen W. Rogers be requested to open this Convention with prayer. 

A division of the question being called for, the question was put to the 
Convention, when, the chair being unable to decide, a division was de- 
manded, when 

Mr. B. L. Brown moved to lay the resolutions on the table, which was 
seconded and adopted. 



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Upon motion, the resolution as to the name of the Convention was 

taken up, and after some debate, was amended so as to read as follows : 

Resolved, That this Convention be styled " The Louisiana State Conven- 
tion of the Friends of Freedom." 

Mr. Earhart's second resolution was then taken up, and after a short 

debate, the following substitute, offered by Mr. James Graham was 

adopted : 

Resolved, That the officers of the permanent organization be a Presi- 
dent, Secretary, Assistant Secretary and Doorkeeper. 

Mr. Earhart moved that Thomas J. Durant, Esq. be declared permanent 
President of this Convention. Adopted. 

Messrs. Earhart and Ready were appointed a Committee to conduct the 
President to the chair, who was received with immense applause. 

As soon as the applause had subsided, the President addressed the 

Convention as follows : 

Fellow-Citizens of the Convention: — Friends of the cause of human 
freedom and of liberty, I feel greatly oppressed by the sentiments which 
crowd upon me with overpowering influence as I thank you, before taking 
my seat in the honorable position to which your voices have assigned me, 
for the honor you have conferred on me. You are assembled in a great 
aud sacred cause. It is the cause for which your forefathers fought ; the 
cause for which your brothers, on many a battle-field, are falling and dying, 
It is the sacred cause of liberty. We are prompted to the execution of the 
task which we have undertaken by every sentiment of justice and hu- 
manity : of justice to ourselves as men representing the great principles of 
freedom in the State of Louisiana, and to those wearing the bonds of sla-. 
very, but whose bonds are now to be broken. This Convention is the first 
deliberative body in Louisiana that will have proclaimed the freedom of 
all men. No matter with how dark a hue their skins may be embrowned, 
beneath the surface there is the soul of a man, and therein we recognize 
the great principle of equality and fraternity. It is the assertion of this 
principle which will lead to the reconstruction of our country. It is by 
the destruction of slavery that, phcenix-like, will rise from the ashes of 
this rebellion the spirit of a new freedom. Out of this insurrection will 
grow a resurrection th^at will lead us to a glorious immortality. 

Dr. Ready moved that F. Gr. Chamberlain be Secretary ; F. B. Earhart, 
Assistant Secretary, and William A. Davis, Doorkeeper. 

James E. Tewell nominated Mr. William Baker as Secretary. 

The name of Mr. Chamberlain was withdrawn as a candidate for Secre- 
tary, and William Baker was unanimously elected Secretary to the Con- 
vention. 

Mr. F. B. Earhart was nominated as Assistant Secretary, but declined. 

Mr. F. Gr. Chamberlain was nominated and duly elected Assistant Secre- 
tary ; and Wm. A Davis, as Doorkeeper. 



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Mr. T. J. Earhart's resolution to open the proceedings of the Conven- 
tion with prayer, was then taken up. 

A motion to lay on the table indefinitely, was put and declared to be 
lost, when a division was called for, and resulted in — aye, 52 ; nay, 56. 

The motion to lay on the table being lost — 

Dr. Ready moved to strike out the name of S. W. Rogers, which was 
lost. 

The original motion was then put, and declared carried. A division 
being demanded, gave the following result — aye, 62 ; nay, 53 ; and the 
resolution was declared carried. 

The President then invited the Rev. S. W. Rogers to step forward and 
open the proceedings of the Convention by prayer. The reverend gentle- 
man stepped on the platform and offered up a very eloquent and appropriate 
prayer. 

After which, the President announced the object of the Convention to 
be the election of delegates to a Convention of the Friends of Freedom of 
the Southern States, proposed to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, on the 
8th of January next. He stated that it was very probable that the day of 
meeting would be postponed, and possibly the place of meeting changed. 

Mr. John F. Collins moved that a committee be appointed to draft 
resolutions, setting forth the opinions and purposes of this Convention. 
Adopted. 

Upon motion, the number of the committee was fixed at three. To con- 
sist of Messrs. Hornor, Waples and Flanders. 

Mr. Chamberlain moved to increase the number of the committee to five. 
After a short debate the motion was withdrawn. 

Dr. Dostie moved to have the committee to consist of one from each 
delegation. 

Hon. Ed. White moved to lay Dr. Dostie's resolution on the table, 
which was carried. 

Mr. Fisk offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That we approve of the call for a Convention of the Friends 
of Freedom to meet on the 8th of January, 1864, at Louisville, Kentucky, 
and that we will elect delegates to represent Louisiana in said Con- 
vention. 

Mr. Collins moved to lay on the table which was adopted. 

Mr. Earhart offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the President now proceed to appoint the regular stand- 
ing committees of this Convention, as follows : 

A Committee on Credentials and the introduction of new members ; a 
Committee on Ways and Means. 



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Each resolution was then put separately and adopted. 

Moved — that each committee consist of three. Adopted. 

The President appointed Messrs. Earhart of New Orleans, Sarta of La- 
fourche, and O'Connor of Baton Rouge, the Committee on Credentials ; and 
Messrs. Graham, Pish and Fernandez the Committee on Ways and Means. 

Mr. J. R. Terry offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the President appoint a Sergeant-at-Arins, who shall 
hold his office during the sittings of this Convention. 

After some debate, the resolution was put to the vote and declared 
lost. A division being called for, resulted as follows : aye, 33 ; nay, 43. 
The resolution was consequently lost. 

Mr. Wm. R. Crane moved that the Committee on Resolutions have till 
to-morrow evening to report ; and that when this Convention adjourns, 
it adjourn till to-morrow evening at 6 o'clock. 

At the request of several members, Mr. Crane withdrew that portion of 
his resolution referring to adjournment. 

Mr. Collins moved to take Mr. Fisk's resolution from the table. Upon 
being put to the vote, it was declared lost. A division Avas demanded, 
with the following result : aye, 69 ; nay, 5. Mr. Fisk's resolution was ac- 
cordingly taken up. 

Mr. Collins moved to fill the blank with the figure 1, which was adopted. 

It was moved to amend, by inserting after Louisville, Ky., " or any 
other place that may be selected." 

Moved to lay amendment temporarily on the table to permit the Com- 
mittee on Resolutions to report. Motion adopted. 

Mr. C. W. Hornor, Chairman of the Committee, reported that the Com- 
mittee had a number of resolutions before them, three or four of which they 
had decided to adopt, but that they were not prepared to report, and asked 
time to prepare their report. 

Mr. A. C. Hills moved, that when this Convention adjourns, it adjourn 
till to-morrow evening. 

Dr. Ready moved to amend, by adding " 4 o'clock " after the word 
evening. 

Mr. W. R. Miller moved, "That when we adjourn, we adjourn to meet 
on Monday next." Also, " That when we adjourn, we adjourn to meet to- 
morrow morning at 10 o'clock." 

The motion to adjourn till Tuesday next was then put and lost. 

The motion to adjourn to Monday next was then put and adopted. 

Hon. Ed. White moved to adjourn. Adopted. 

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The Convention then adjourned to meet in the same place on Monday 
evening-, December 21st, at 6| o'clock. 



Monday, December 21st, 1863. 

Pursuant to adjournment, the Convention met at half-past six, P. M., the 
President, Thos. J. Durant, in the chair. 

The minutes of the previous meeting were read, and after some correc- 
tion of names, were adopted. 

The Chair announced the order of business, and called for the report of 
the Committee on Resolutions, when 

Mr. James B. Tewell offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That this Convention recommend to the Free State General 
Committee, when it shall have been fully advised as to the time and place 
of holding the Freedom's Convention of the slave States, to call a State 
Convention of the Friends of Freedom, the basis of representation therein 
to be similar to that agreed upon for the Constitutional Convention, and the 
proceedings to be participated in only by associations now represented in 
the Free State General Committee. 

Resolved, That this Convention do now adjourn sine die. 

The Chair decided the motion to be out of order, as contrary to the ob- 
ject for which the Convention was called and destructive of its organiza- 
tion. The decision of the Chair was appealed from, and the yeas and nays 
demanded. 

When the names of one of the colored delegations was called, S. W. 
Rogers stated that his delegation, learning there had been some misunder- 
standing or dissatisfaction, had attended with the intention of remaining 
quiet, and did not propose to take any part in the proceedings. 

■ The President stated that the Secretary would call the names of every 
member admitted at the last meeting ; they could use their own pleasure 
about voting. 

Mr. Waples moved that the delegation be excused from voting. 

The President could not entertain the motion until the delegation asked 
to be excused. 

The calling of the roll was resumed by the Secretary, and the following 
result announced: whole/number of votes cast, 96 ; yeas, 77 ; nay, 19. 
The decision of the Chair was consequently sustained. 

Mr. W. R. Miller then offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the delegations hereinafter named be, and are hereby 
declared, members of, and constituting, with those hereafter to be admitted, 
the Louisiana State Convention of the Friends of Freedom : 






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The Free State Union Association. 

The First District Union Association. 

The Second District Union Association. 

The Third District Union Association. 

The Fourth District Union Association. 

Union Club, First District. 

Union Club, Second District. 

Union Club, 1st Ward, First District. 

Union Club, 2d Ward, First District. 

Union Club, 8th Ward, Third District. 

Union Club, 10th Ward, Fourth District. 

Union Club, 11th Ward, Fourth District. 

Union Club, Baton Rouge, 

Union Association of New Orleans, First District. 

Workingmen's Union League. 

German Union Association, First and Fourth Districts. 

Union Republican Club, Second District. 

Regeneration Club, Parishes of Lafourche, Terrebonne and Assumption. 

City of Jefferson Association. 

Western Louisiana Union Club. 

It was moved to lay the resolution on the table. 

The President decided the resolution of Mr. Miller was out of order, 
on the ground that the matter contained in it had been settled by the Con- 
vention at a previous meeting. 

Mr. Miller appealed from the decision of the Chair. Upon being put to 
the vote, the decision of the Chair was declared to be sustained. 

Mr. Meeks then offered the following resolution : 

Whereas, At the meeting held in this hall, on the evening of the 15th 
inst. last, by the delegates representing the different clubs and societies of 
white male citizens of the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, and composed 
of unconditional Union men ; and 

Whereas, The object of said meeting was to elect delegates to meet 
delegates from other States in convention to be held in this city of New 
Orleans or Louisville, for the purpose of adopting some desirable concert 
of action ; and 

Whereas, The proceedings of said meeting were conducted in an infor- 
mal manner, to- wit : 

By proceeding to business without calling the roll of the proper ac- 
credited delegates ; 

In not calling the names of delegates, that the votes might be correctly 
tallied ; 

Also, by permitting the colored delegates to vote on the question of 
their own admission ; and 

Whereas, It is believed that said proceedings has already and will 
further tend to cause dissatisfaction and prevent that harmony of action 
among ourselves desirable. Be it therefore 

Resolved, That said proceedings be reconsidered. 

The Chair decided the resolution out of order. 



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The decision of the Chair was appealed from, and some calls being made 
for the yeas and nays, the Chair announced that as no rules had been 
adopted by this Convention for the government of its proceedings; it must 
be presumed that the rules by which public meetings and legislative bodies 
were governed, were proper for the guidance of this Convention, and in 
such cases, it required one-fifth of the members to call for the yeas and 
nays before they could be ordered. 

It appearing that one-fifth of the members demanded the yeas and nays, 
they were ordered to be called. 

The roll was then called, when 104 votes were east : yeas, 85 ; nays, 19. 

The decision of the Chair was therefore sustained. 

The Chair then called for the report of the Committee appointed at the 
last meeting to draft resolutions expressive of the sense, of the Convention, 
when Dr. Kearly offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the Convention should be, to fulfill the object for which 
it was called, composed of white men and citizens of Louisiana. 

The Chair declared the resolution out of order. 

Hon. Judge E. Hiestand, not having been present at the previous meet- 
ing, asked to be informed, as there appeared to be some misunderstanding 
about the colored delegations, how the status of delegations had been 

decided. 

The President explained, that the colored delegations had been ad- 
mitted in the same manner as other delegations. 

Mr. Hornor announced that the credentials of delegates from an Asso- 
ciation at Carrollton had just been handed him, and he desired to know 
what should he done with them. 

The Chair stated that the admission of members to seats would take 
precedence of all other business. 

The gentleman (whose name did not transpire) who handed in the cre- 
dentials referred to, stated that the delegation he represented were not 
willing to sit in a Convention where colored men were admitted to scats, 
he would therefore withdraw the credentials. 

Mr. C. W. Hornor, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, then 
reported the following preamble and resolutions : 

Whereas, The Hon. B. Gratz Brown, Senator from Missouri, and other 
Friends of Freedom in that State, have issi ed :i call for a General Conven- 
tion of the Friends of Freedom from all the slaveholding States, to be held 
at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 8th day of January, 1864, for the purpose 
of deliberating upon the best means of securing, on a permanent basis, the 



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interests of human liberty, unci uniting; in harmonious and concerted action 
the eff >rts of all who are opposed to slavery ; and whereas, this Convention 
cordially approves the purposes thus had in view. Therefore be it 

Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention a General Convention 
of the Friends of Freedom in the Southern States ought to be held at an 
early day, and that said Convention should be held on the 22d day of 
February 1864, rather than on the 8th of January, as the latter date does 
not afford sufficient time to all interested to make the necessary prepara- 
tions. 

Resolved, That we respectfully urge upon our friends in other States 
called to this Convention, the propriety of holding* the same in New Orleans, 
a< being- a place better adapted to the purpose, more accessible to : 11, and 
one from which the voice of such a Convention would be heard with more 
effect than the place first proposed. 

Resolved, That we cordially approve of all the measures of the Admin- 
istration for the suppression of the rebellion ; but more than all, of the 
Proclamation of Emancipation of 1st January, 18G3, and that had the Pro- 
clamation excepted no part of Louisiana from its operation, we should only 
have approved it the more. 

Resolved, That the present rebellion is an effort of the slaveholding party 
to overthrow the structure and principles of republican government and 
the rights of man, and to substitute for them a despotic government based 
on ignorance, slavery and military force. 

Resolved, That the best means of aiding the Government in the suppres- 
sion of the rebellion are to be found in the employment of all honorable 
means to abolish slavery, and finally extinguish the abhorrent idea of pro- 
perty in man. 

Resolved, That the State Governments of the rebellious States were un- 
justly and illegally disorganized, subverted and overthrown by the hands of 
armed traitors : and the subsequent conquest of the territory of those 
States does not operate the restoration of the State Governments. 

Resolved, That the only proper method for the insurrectionary districts 
to pursue, in order to regain their position as States in the Union, is to call 
conventions, adopt constitutions for the new States and petition Congress 
for admission into the Union. 

Resolved, That so far from objecting to the organization of territorial 
government for the States subverted by the rebels, we consider such organi- 
zation the safest course and the surest method to secure free State Govern- 
ments ; the most effectual remedy for the evils of secession ; the plan most 
likely to satisfy the malcontents (as they would be debarred the plea of 
being kept in the Union against their will) ; but so far as Louisiana is con- 
cerned, we hope to have a free State Government before any territorial 
organization can be made by Congress. 

The resolutions were adopted unanimously. 

Mr. Fisk then offered the following resolution : 

Resolved, That all the rebel States ought to be considered as conquered 
territory, and that Congress ought not to admit them, or any of them, into 
the Union until they have adopted Free State Constitutions. 



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The Chair was of opinion that the substance of Mr. Fisk's resolution 
was embodied in the resolutions just adopted. 

Upon motion, Mr. Fisk's resolution was laid on ihe table. 

Mr. Collins moved to take up the resolution of Mr. Fisk, adopted at the 
previous meeting, fixing the number of delegates to the Louisville Con- 
vention at seven. The motion was adopted. 

It was then moved to amend by adding " or at any other time that may 
be adopted." The amendment was carried. The resolution as amended 
was Mien adopted. 

Moved — that the Chair appoint the delegates to the Convention, which 
motion, after some debate, was withdrawn. 

Moved — that a committee of three be appointed to suggest names of can- 
didates to be voted for. The motion was lost. 

Mr. M. C. Mali an moved that the Convention now nominate and elect 
the delegates. The motion was lost, 

Mr. B. F. Flanders moved that all members who were willing to go and 
pay their own expenses, be requested to rise, and that the Convention elect 
from them the seven delegates required. The motion was lost. 

The Chair requested all who were willing to go and pay their own ex- 
penses, to rise ; none, however, responded. 

Dr. Bead}'' suggested that it was hardly fair to ask men to go and pay 
their cwn expenses ; the Convention met for the purpose of sending dele- 
gates to the Convention of the Friends of Freedom of the Southern States. 
The questions to be discussed before that Convention were important, and 
the Convention ought to select as delegates such men as they wanted to 
represent them, and pay their expenses. 

Mr. Flanders agreed with the last gentleman, and offered a resolution : 
That all who were willing to go if their expenses were paid, be requested 
to rise. 

Dr. Beady said that there were many who might go if elected, but who, 
after the adoption of the last resolution, would feel a delicacy about offering 
themselves as candidates. 

Mr. Flanders thereupon withdrew his motion. 

Dr. Beady then moved that the Convention take a recess of ten minutes, 
for the purpose of consultation, in order to learn wlu were willing to go. 

A motion was made to amend, by the appointment of a committee of 
three, to submit to the Convention the names of persons who would go ii 
elected. The amendment was adopted. 



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The Chair appointed Messrs. Flanders, Ready and Edwin White ; when 
the Chair announced a recess of ten minutes. 

The recess having expired, the Chair called the Convention to order, 
when the Committee reported the following 1 names : 

Thos. J. Durant, Esq., Dr. Ready, J. McNair, E. Goldman, J. M. White, 
T. J. Earhart and A. Fernandez. 

Messrs. J. McNair and E. Goldman stated that they could not attend, 
when their names were stricken from the list. 

The name of Thos. J. Durant, Esq., was then put in nomination. The 
question was put hy the Secretary, and Thos. J. Durant was unanimously 
elected, 

Mr. W. W. Lamberton moved that the election be by ballot. Upon 
being put to the vote, the Chair declared the motion cai'ried. A division 
being called for, resulted in 62 votes for, 42 against. The election was 
therefore ordered to be by ballot. 

Mr. Collins moved to add the uame of Mr. Fisk. Mr. Fisk declined. 

The following gentlemen were then nominated and added to the list 
offered by the Committee : 

D. L. Shearer, B. F. Flanders, Rufus Waples, L. B. Martin, W. W. Lam- 
berton, John S. Walton, Charles Leaumont, Dr. A. P. Dostie, J. B. Schroder, 
D. C. Woodruff, Geo. G. Cleal and Jno. F. Collins. 

Moved — that the nominations be now closed. Adopted. 

It was then moved to read the list of names, and strike off all who 
could not promise to go if elected. 

The motion was adopted, and all but the following gentlemen declined : 
Thos. J. Durant, Dr. Ready, J. M. White, T. J. Earhart and A. Fernandez. 

Mr. Fisk withdrew his refusal, and his name was added to the list. 

The name of Ansel Edwards was also added. 

Hon. Chas. Leaumont then moved to reconsider the resolution as to the 
election of delegates by ballot. The motion was adopted. 

A motion was made to olect the delegates by acclamation. Adopted. 
The following names were then submitted to vote and declared unani- 
mously elected : Thos. J. Durant, Dr. Ready, J. M. White, T. J. Earhart, 
A. Fernandez, Josiah Fisk and Ansel Edwards. 

Mr. Waples moved to add the name of Mr. Gallup to the list of dele- 
gates. Mr. Gallup declined. 

Mr. Noble moved to add the name of A. C. Hills to the list. Adopted. 



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Motion unanimously adopted. 




THOMAS J. DURANT, President. 



William Baker, Secretary. 



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